Former CM’s concerns and DM’s arrogance

Amid drum beating on public accountability and development by the governor’s administration a former Chief Minister of the state and leader of the oldest and largest regional political party National Conference Omar Abdullah dropping at the office of Deputy Commissioner Budgam has generated a feeling that Omar did not let ego come his way in demonstrating deepest concern over the slow pace of work on some developmental works in Beerwa assembly constituency but District Magistrate Budgam demonstrated arrogance by taking pleasure in seeing a former Chief Minister seated in front of her like an ordinary applicant. Though the attendance of former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah at the office of Deputy Commissioner Budgam with a brief on the pending developmental works in Beerwa assembly constituency represented by him in the previous assembly should have prompted Governor Satya Pal Malik and his five advisors to seek explanations from Deputy Commissioner Budgam over her failure in completion of the pending development works on time but the state administration did not even made a namesake reference about former Chief Minister’s meeting with District Magistrate Budgam in the later’s office chamber in any official statement. At least District Magistrate Budgam should have issued a formal statement from her office about the issues former Chief Minister discussed with her in her office chambers. Knowing that after the fall of popular government the former legislators call up senior officers with the lists of public demands of their native assembly constituencies, the District Magistrate Budgam should have issued a formal statement about her response to the former chief minister’s demands over the completion of pending developmental works in Beerwa assembly constituency.
Interestingly the progress of Budgam-Beerwa road is slow enough to see the work not heading to completion since last five years and as such the district magistrate can’t defend the indefensible delay cause in the completion of the work on Budgam-Beerwa road under execution for the last more than five yearsThe silence of the District Magistrate over the demands of the former chief minister on pending developmental works in Beerwa assembly constituency shows her arrogance and irresponsiveness to the developmental needs of the people in her district. Since the attendance of the former Chief Minister at the office of the Deputy Commissioner was in itself an indication that all is not going well in the Beerwa assembly constituency the Governor should have invited the former Chief Minister for a detailed discussion over his concerns about the progress of development works in the Beerwah assembly constituency. The response to former Chief Minister’s attendance at the office of the Deputy Commissioner Budgam shows that the governor’s administration is least bothered about the concerns of former legislators on the progress of developmental works in their native assembly constituencies.